[142][143], The Irishman appeared on many critics' year-end top ten lists.

[11] The meeting was supposed to last an hour but ended up lasting four hours.

But their focus is shifting more towards streaming in the home as the main venue for viewing.

by Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith, which appeared in The New York Review of Books.

"[81] It was previously reported in February 2019 that Netflix would possibly give the film a wide theatrical release, at the request of Scorsese.

Additionally, several actors appear in smaller roles, including Aleksa Palladino as Mary Sheeran, Kevin O'Rourke as John McCullough, Bo Dietl as Joey Glimco, Kate Arrington as Older Connie Sheeran, Jordyn DiNatale as Young Connie Sheeran, Jim Norton as Don Rickles, Al Linea as Sam "Momo" Giancana, Garry Pastore as Albert Anastasia, Daniel Jenkins as E. Howard "Big Ears" Hunt, Paul Ben-Victor as Jake Gottlieb, Patrick Gallo as Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone, Jake Hoffman as Allen Dorfman, Ken Clark as James P. Hoffa, Peter Jay Fernandez as Cecil B. Moore, Jeff Moore as Frank Church, Gino Cafarelli as Frank Rizzo, and Robert Funaro as Johnny, a Friendly Lounge bartender. [97], A 23-minute featurette of a roundtable discussion with Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci titled The Irishman: In Conversation was released on Netflix on November 28, 2019. [98] A three-part companion podcast for the film called Behind The Irishman was hosted by Sebastian Maniscalco, and published weekly from December 2 to 16, 2019; there were also three bonus episodes released on January 27, 30, and February 3, 2020. As silver discs have given way in popularity to streaming, the timing between a theatrical release and home video has gotten much shorter--as little as 90 days or less in many cases. [104] The heads of several theater chains, including AMC's Adam Aron, who refused to play Roma the previous November, said they would only be open to playing The Irishman if Netflix "respects the decades old theatrical window, that suggests that movies come to theaters first for a couple of months, and then go to the home.

To help, Brandt handed over a screenplay of his own.

"[4] Afterwards, Scorsese approached De Niro with an idea to do an aging hitman story, which did not move forward. What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? [78] Two tracks Robertson wrote for the film that appear in the credits, "I Hear You Paint Houses" and "Remembrance", were included on his 2019 album Sinematic.